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More Exciting Finds News - Vindex - 08-14-2013
Lots of things coming into the news at the moment...
Horse "shoes" in London:
http://horsetalk.co.nz/2013/08/13/roman-horseshoes-unearthed-road/#axzz2by1DKp17
And "Commodus' Gladiator mini colleseum" :-o
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/mini-colosseum-of-gladiator-emperor-found-130812.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1
More Exciting Finds News - PhilusEstilius - 08-14-2013
They are not true horse shoes but hippo sandles and may well have been used on oxen or other cloven hooved animals surely.
More Exciting Finds News - Vindex - 08-14-2013
That's why I put "shoes" the way I did.
I know that, you know that, one hopes the archaeologists at the City of London knows that. Joe Public tends not to, though :wink: